Carol Brown (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I, and also on behalf of Senators O’Brien, Polley and Sherry, move:

That the Senate—

(a)

notes:

(i)

the comments by the Member for Bass, Mr Michael Ferguson, on 17 August 2005 that the ‘sale of Telstra will not disadvantage Northern Tasmania’,

(ii)

the announcement by Telstra on 5 June 2007 that it plans to close its Launceston Service Advantage centre, which will result in the loss of 257 jobs,

(iii)

that, on top of this, a further 20 Telstra technician’s jobs were axed on 6 June 2007, and

(iv)

the dramatic effect these redundancies will have on the lives of workers and their families; and

(b)

calls on the Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts (Senator Coonan) to join Tasmanian members and senators and the Tasmanian State Government to lobby Telstra to reverse the decision.

Question put.